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Jeb Bush: Common Core is the right thing to do for our country

Jeb is one of the nation's leading champions of Common Core standards, a move toward nationalizing America's patchwork education; his foundation recently launched an ad campaign promoting them. The move is driven by a broad consensus of labor and business groups, as well as philanthropists like Bill Gates, but it has proven intensely unpopular with a Republican base generally suspicious of federal control and specifically focused on local autonomy in education.

"I guess I've been out of office for a while," Bush told Fox News this week. "So the idea that something I support that people are opposed to, it means that I have to stop supporting it if there's not any reason based on fact to do that? I just--maybe it's stubbornness, but I just don't seem compelled to run for cover when I think this is the right thing to do for our country."

Source: Ben Smith on BuzzFeed.com, "Terrible Candidate" Apr 7, 2014

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